Kit Burnout

[OldManModeller]

Did you ever start a kit that you were excited about and then suffer kit burn out. You were just emotionally done with it and wanted to start something new before the kit was finished?

Maybe the PE got you down or a new kit came on the market, or your life changed in drastic ways.

How many kits have you just put in a box halfway through the build, but later went back to?

I always try to finish a kit even though I may have lost interest in it. Maybe that is not the right thing to do. the model turns out, but not well enough for me.

So...

Finish it, box it for later or throw it all away?

 

[TimM63]

Did you ever start a kit that you were excited about and then suffer kit burn out. You were just emotionally done with it and wanted to start something new before the kit was finished?

Maybe the PE got you down or a new kit came on the market, or your life changed in drastic ways.

How many kits have you just put in a box halfway through the build, but later went back to?

I always try to finish a kit even though I may have lost interest in it. Maybe that is not the right thing to do. the model turns out, but not well enough for me.

So...

Finish it, box it for later or throw it all away?

I have boxed one kit due to lost interest and that was the F-111. There was one kit I threw away because it was unbuildable.
I usually finish the kits I start. It just may take me a little longer.

 

[mark2]

Ive plenty of abandoned projects,mostly I get a bit bored and start something new, most of them will get finished at some point, I've binned a couple usually because of a monumental cock up on my part.

 

[OldManModeller]

Ive plenty of abandoned projects,mostly I get a bit bored and start something new, most of them will get finished at some point, I've binned a couple usually because of a monumental cock up on my part.

Yeah, I screwed up a few over the years. It happens.

Good thing the wife doesn't keep track of my model hobby expenses. If she knew that I pitched a $100 kit that I messed up, I might be in the dog house for a while.

 

[Jakko]

Emotionally done with it? No, can't say I ever have. But I have got tons of partly-built models around, most of them back in their boxes, but that's largely because I often lose interest with things when a new project worms its way to the foreground in my brain. Most of it will eventually get finished — or so I keep telling myself

Anyway, the point of a hobby is to enjoy doing it, if you ask me. If you're working on a model that you're actively disliking the whole way, just call it a day with it, put it back into the box (and possibly give it to someone who does want it), then start on another that you do think you'll enjoy. This is far better, and less likely to put you off modelling entirely, than keeping going with something you don't like.

 

[Jim62]

Did you ever start a kit that you were excited about and then suffer kit burn out. You were just emotionally done with it and wanted to start something new before the kit was finished?

Maybe the PE got you down or a new kit came on the market, or your life changed in drastic ways.

How many kits have you just put in a box halfway through the build, but later went back to?

I always try to finish a kit even though I may have lost interest in it. Maybe that is not the right thing to do. the model turns out, but not well enough for me.

So...

Finish it, box it for later or throw it all away?

Yes that has occurred.

 

[the Baron]

Did you ever start a kit that you were excited about and then suffer kit burn out. You were just emotionally done with it and wanted to start something new before the kit was finished?...

That's pretty much how the Shelf of Doom gets populated. I've got about a dozen builds like that, going back maybe 20 years. I've finished other builds in the meantime, but yeah, sometimes you just lose interest.

I don't throw any away, though. I'm too Dutchy to do that, it's wasteful.

 

[Jakko]

I don't throw any away, though. I'm too Dutchy to do that, it's wasteful.

QFT